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There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as…
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As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of…
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I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out.…
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It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks…
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I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to…
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To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse,…
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Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental…
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Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.
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Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.
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Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out…
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We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
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That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect…
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
— Theodor Adorno
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken…
— Samuel Johnson
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Life is such a mystery, no one can understand it, and one who claims that he understands it is simply ignorant. He…
— Rajneesh
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.
— Carl Jung
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You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real…
— Rosalind Franklin
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Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of…
— Fred Hoyle
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Just as the day cannot exist without the night, just as life cannot exist without death, creativity cannot exist without silence. And…
— Rajneesh
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The reality of my life cannot die for I am indestructible consciousness.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienable right for life. This right to life cannot be…
— George W. Bush
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Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.
— Aristotle
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